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AFH EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITY: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The First Annual ART FOR HUMANS STUDIO BROOKLYN HOME DESPOT TRASH COLLECT[IV]EYE-ZING SCULPTURE CHALLENGE INVITATIONAL
PROSPECTUS:
ART FOR HUMANS is pleased to announce a top-down/bottom-up program for creativity development, designed to implement enhanced visualization techniques for artists inspired by celebrated immaterial/material waste movements like Arte Povera, and by accomplished Lo-Brow formalist-philosopher-critic celebrity artists like Donald Judd and Richard Tuttle, to appropriate mundane construction tools and materials for purpose-driven creative projects: The First Annual ART FOR HUMANS STUDIO BROOKLYN HOME DESPOT TRASH COLLECT[IV]EYE-ZING SCULPTURE CHALLENGE INVITATIONAL!
Through this landmark production, we, THE BROOKLYN HOME DESPOT TRASH COLLECT[IV]EYE, as a new collaborative collective, will endeavor to fabricate art that superficially resembles garbage, but which, in fact, represents the indomitable human and artistic spirit, a spirit which survives economic lack and social neglect, in part by continuing to invent and innovate, in spite of oppressive conditions and false expectations, established and maintained by a docile general public and their happy tyrant rulers. Everyone knows that the great artist can overcome any adverse condition, rise above the abject to the sublime, toss aside the ego, embrace the contingent and devise low-tech answers to insoluble quasi-scientific problems of economy, by building art out of garbage.
It is common knowledge among most post-Ab-Ex art students and their instructors, that styrofoam, bubble wrap, masking tape, copper wire, house paint, string, secondhand plywood, cheap paper, plastic sheeting, insulation, cardboard and a hand-drill or -saw are the most powerful artist tools in the creative skills-set. In art production, a computer can only go so far, the saying goes! Waste-recycling art is the greenest option for environmentally-conscious culture producers opposed to commodification. Since the great 20th century junk artist Marcel Duchamp [A/K/A R. Mutt], steered art history away from its ruinous course of preciousness, the creative and conceptual artist philosopher is validated to use any hardware store or landfill as a supply shop, and garner critical acclaim. Whether neo-liberalism, -conservatism or -Classicism is the target, a well-aimed trash piece by a designated creativity practitioner is the right weapon to set the record straight and open the field, to re-order the field of art to be most inclusive. With its conception, The First Annual ART FOR HUMANS STUDIO BROOKLYN HOME DESPOT TRASH COLLECT[IV]EYE-ZING SCULPTURE CHALLENGE INVITATIONAL hopes to bring awareness to the value and meaning of re-sampled materials, and incite a critical discourse on immateriality as praxis for urban and/or global art-industrial users and consumers. Furthermore, we will seek to bridge the divide separating branded collectors and institutions, who often fail to recognize the worth of junk- or derivative-art, in the broader market topology, and its arena of ideas. One artist’s trash is another collector’s or museum’s treasure!
For one week in 2011, the ART FOR HUMANS STUDIO BROOKLYN HOME DESPOT TRASH COLLECT[IV]EYE will launch a multi-disciplinary campaign to legitimize neo-TRASH as THE most important post-Capitalist/-Marxian anti-form of positive creative production. Scheduled to coincide with Arts in Bushwick’s “Bushwick Open Studios,” in proximity to the world’s most advanced art centre, New York City, Manhattan, ART FOR HUMANS will offer creativity activists the opportunity to generate an historical moment in time, devoid of artificial constraint and critique-restraint, in the formal process of falsely equating people, art and garbage, for profit. We will clearly demonstrate that it’s possible to do the impossible, and reassign language of the “throwaway” society, towards a forceful intervention for managing non-utility productively. Highlighting manufactured obsolescence as a potential vehicle for artistic expression, giving voice to the next iteration of “found” free speech, we will project junk as the medium-of-choice for the creative class.
SUBMISSIONS:
Participating artists must provide ART FOR HUMANS the following (in digital format only):- Four examples of previously completed works, showing how you and/or your collaborative partnerships, utilize trash in your creative process. [Still images: JPEG format (no more than four files, less than 10MB in size); moving images: MPEG format [one reel with four samples, less than 100MB in size)*
- A short description [Simple Text only] explaining what “Trash” means to you, your community and your artistic process
- CV and contact information
- Additional supporting materials [References, press, concept-papers, etc.]; no more than three (3) e-links
*Please Note: Artist groups must submit group documentation
PROGRAM TIMELINE:- > May 28-June 2: Submissions accepted
- > June 3: Schedules for studio use announced
- > June 4: In-studio production
- > June 5-6: Exhibition
- > June 7: Photo session
- > June 8-9 Results posted by AFH on artforhumans.com
MATERIALS FEE: $30
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:I. SELECTION: AFH LEAD ARTIST Paul McLean, and a panel of experts [Milo Santini, Zeelio van Krebs, Vera Pistollia and Shane Kennedy] will review submissions and select up to 12 artists to participate in The First Annual ART FOR HUMANS STUDIO BROOKLYN HOME DESPOT TRASH COLLECT[IV]EYE-ZING SCULPTURE CHALLENGE INVITATIONAL; selected artists will be notified via email
II. PRODUCTION: Each selected artist or artist-group will be allotted a two-hour time slot to work on the materials [provided by AFH] in AFH STUDIO BROOKLYN
III. EXHIBITION: The completed sculpture will be displayed in AFH STUDIO BROOKLYN during the AFH Open House, June 5-6
IV: DOCUMENTATION: The project will be documented by still/video camera throughout the production/exhibition; documentation will be uploaded to various AFH archives for permanent display; participating artists participate on the basis that they accept post-production archiving of documentation at Art for Humans’ network of sites, and that AFH will retain rights to show documentation for historical and educational purposes in perpetuity
FOR MORE INFORMATION, AND TO SUBMIT, CONTACT:
art@artforhumans.comFOUNDING SUPPORTER: HOME DESPOT
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